MicroMay '97

Well since there is much recent discussion about performance, this seems
as good a time as any to announce MicroMay '97 in New York - May 16, 21-23,
1997. Concerts will be at the New York University Theatre (35 W. 4th St.)
and at the Columbia University St. Paul's Chapel (entrance at W. 116th
St. and Broadway). Tickets are $12.

* = first performance (Tunings in Brackets)


May 16 - Spice
*Wendy Carlos - Afterlife - (15ET) for strings, electronics, and chorus
*Elodie Lauten - Discombobulations - (just) fl, just guitar, synth, perc
Joseph Maneri - Sharafuddin b Yah Yah-Makdum Ul-Mulk (72ET) Bolotowsky, fl
John Cage - 0' and 0" - (indeterminate) for AFMM Ensemble
*David Edgar Grana - Leonardo - (48ET) bsn, wrench guitar, cello
Jon Catler/Meredith Borden - Night Bird - (13-limit) soprano and guitar
*Frank Wigglesworth - Twin Songs - (1/4 comma meantone) baroque flute
Ganesh Anandan - Bonunca Shruti and Dedication to Harry Partch - (11 limit)
original instrument ensemble from Montreal

May 21 - Jewel
Andrea Gabrieli - Vezossa filli - (just, first time in 20th Cent.) chorus
John Dowland - 3 works - (Dowland's personal tuning) featuring Wim Hoogewerf
Johann S. Bach - Ei, Wie der Kaffee ist Suss - (Werckmeister III)
Harry Partch - Barstow - Version I - (11 limit) featuring John Schneider
US*Andrew Culver - Architectonic Space - (idiosyncratic) septet
*Mordecai Sandberg - The Song of Songs - (polymicrotonal) violin - Tom Chiu
Julian Carrillo - Preludio a Colon - (96ET) AFMM Ensemble

May 22- Ear Garden: FUNDRAISER for AFMM
Terry Riley - In C in Just Intonation - (7-limit) Schneider, Hoogewerf, AFMM
*Luc Marcel - Beach Glas - (48ET) bsn and string trio
Iannis Xenakis - Embellie - (24ET) Anastasia Solberg, viola
Sophia Gubaidulina - Duo for 2 Bassoons - (24ET/multiphonic) Frank Morelli/jr
*Johnny Reinhard - Odysseus Cello Concerto - (polymicrotonal) for 43

May 23 - Spirit
*Virgil Moorefield - Bajour - (48ET) violin, guitar, cello, bsn, electronics
*Harvard Project4NewMusic - (idiosyncratic) ensemble to be determined
US*Pascale Criton - La Ritournelle et le Galop - (96ET) Wim Hoogewerf, guitar
*Percy Grainger - Free Music for 4 Theremin - (graph) Kavina/Ross/BCatler/Brooke
Ivan Wyschnegradsky - Chant Nocturne - (48ET and 36ET) Chiu(vln)& Pierce/Jonas
*Kyle Gann - Eleven Gates of Heaven - (myriad) for tape
*Mayumi Reinhard - Tingeroo - (idiosyncratic) for synth and homemades -MFHI Ens
Jon Catler - Spiritual Brother - (13 limit) elec guit, bass, and drums
Ornette Coleman - Free - (idiosyncratic) for elec guit, bass, and drums


AFMM Ensemble: Andrew Bolotowsky, flute; Johnny Reinhard, basoon;
Jon Catler, guitar; Tom Chiu, violin; Anastasia Solberg, viola;
David Eggar, cello; Meredith Borden, soprano; Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord
and introducing the AFMM 8-member Chorus.

Special Guests Invited: Guitarists John Schneider (LA) and Wim Hoogewerf
(Paris); Ganesh Anandan Ensemble (Montreal); Thereminists Lydia Kavina
(Moscow) and Eric Ross (Binghamton, NY); and Harvard Project4NewMusic


Johnny Reinhard
Director
American Festival of Microtonal Music
318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW
New York, New York 10021 USA
(212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495
reinhard@ios.com



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Another seasoning to flavor the images I presented in my report is that the
walls of this exhibition hall were adorned with photography by David Byrne (of
Talking Heads fame).


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